The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-04-20

According To Broughton's own statement
business Just huns at his two stores sine,
his big lads" in the NoRTHERNER
Mr.. G. w. Evans, who lived near Whit,
Oak. died on the 18th instant and was buries
on the 18th. He was seventy-two years old
Mrs. Eliza Salisbury, an old and highl,
respected resident Of this township, wa
buried last Saturday. She died on Thursday
the l4th inst, after a brief illness, of diseas,
of the lungs.
Sirs Guy and Charles sport very shiny
new. silk " "clipnewters." Lawyers Hilton ant
Tabor, DIR. Maynard and Will Miller. bounC
not 10 be behind the times. have followed
suit.
From 500 to 26 Q was the range OF tn.
mercury during the past few days. Clum
Engie, our great peach grower, reports
peaches uniniured, but says il was a "closC
scald.'
The following letters remained uncalled fol
in the Paw Pew postofiice for the week end.
ing April 18th, 1887: Mrs Frank Baker
Miss Sarah Rounds, A. Shaffer, Thomas
Wright.
For all kinds of elegant Job printing, call
at the NoRTnRRNER office. Any kiud of work
from visiting card to an auction bill exc
euted with neatness and dispatch ard AT
living prices.
We have received a very interesting COM
munication from our friend, Frank Milling
ton of Kirwin, Kansas, too late for insertion
In this weeks paper. We shall publish it in
our next issue
Seth Allen, having been appointed janitor
and lamplighter by the "viIlage dads has
also been promoted 10 the position of "cir-
cular editor of the True NoRTHERSER. The
two jobs go together.
pleasant dancing party, in which some
twenty-five or thirty couples participated,
Was held at the Longweil opera house last
Thursday evening. Pfeifer's Kalamazoo
orchestra furnished the music.
paragraph is going the rounds Of the
newspapers that letter was dropped into
the Sheboygan. Wisconsin, postoffce directed
to Father, Michigan. The postmaster sent
1t to Paw Paw. He guessed right.
Miss Mary Richmond of this township.
died on Wednesday last, at the age of twen-
ty-hve years, of quick consumption. She
was buried on Friday i'll the Wildey ceme-
terry, Elder w. j. Russell officiating.
The marble season seems to have closed
The game has been superseded by base ball
Future members of the national and other
leagues, of all ages and sizes, are putting in
their best hicks at the great American game.
Rev. l.. h. Fish has resigned his charge in
Paw Paw, to become assistant pastor of the
First Baptist church in Kalamazoo, and will
move there with Mr.. Haigh's family very
soon. be will assume his duties the first of
Nav.
We notice by the Reps5ltcan-kansas
Empire that Frank Millington was one of
the seventeen fortunate ones, out of q class
Oh thlrty-nine members who passed a sue
cessful examination before the board OF
pharmacy.
The township clerks safe was removed
last Saturday from Longwells store 10 the
Courier Office. II would look 70 an outsider
Us " the democrats had succeeded in captur-
ng one township oflice-but they didn't,
lust the same.
The ladies are specially invited To call at
the millinery rooms of Marshall q Van
Fleet and examine their new assortment of
combs and pins with Rhinestone setting, and
1t the same time learn the latest stylc of
ioing the hair.
Miss Jennie Harris, an elocutionjst of
Battle Creek, will give an entertainment on
saturday evening. April 23th. Mt the opera
house. SHOWS orchestra will furnish the
music. Admission, twenty-five cents: child.
en fifteen cents
W. Z. \. Ferguson, graduate of the
iental department of the University of
Maryland, has located in this village and will
pen an Office over the Paw Paw Savings
Sank. There is no guess work about his
'eing graduate, as he has his diploma with
lin.
We have received from the secretary of
tate copy of the Michigan Legislative
1anunl for 1887. 1t is book that is indis- |
'ensable In any well regulated newspaper
ifice. Secretary Osmun has our sincere |
hanks for the courtesy extended.
The Courier. in its statement of the vote OF |
his county, reported Judge Campbell's plu- |
atty at l,6l3. His real plurality, as given |
the NoRTHERNRR, was 1913. But then.
iriiiin was so terribly beaten that we don't |
lame the Courier for trying to let him down
3 easy as possible.
We received letter from Fred X. Bassett
Aberdeen, Dakota. one day last week, in
hieh ne stated that the thermometer stood
30 III the shade. That beat this locality
lO0, and was about 14Oo warmer
IAN some of the weather they had there last
inter. Great country that
The township of Paw Paw gave the largest
rohibition majority of any voting precinct
the county, bat the township of Geneva is
ltitled to the credit of casting the largest
rohibition vote in proportion to the total
'te polled, the canvass showing that the yes
'tes In that town outnumbered the no votes
velve to one.
Since he began advertising in the NORTH |
iNER. G. w. Young says he has had great
ade, the best he ever had. He sold ten of
ose celebrated Albion cuItivators of his in
ie day.
On every side and every hand lc
GOOD business men will asy.
Ger al our broad and prosperous land s
How printers ink doth pay"
Several holes have been made i'm the d
'ined glass windows of the Disciple church d
boys throwing stones through them, not
fentionally we presume but carelesslv